Amblyseius meridionalis Berlese, 1914

Khaustov, Vladimir A., 2020, Review of Amblyseius Berlese (Acari: Phytoseiidae) in Western Siberia, Russia, Acarologia 60 (4), pp. 769-805 : 787-788

Amblyseius meridionalis Berlese

Amblyseius obtusus var. meridionalis Berlese, 1914: 144 .

Typhlodromus obtusus var. meridionalis: Chant 1957: 306 .

Amblyseius meridionalis: Athias-Henriot 1958: 32

Typhlodromus (Amblyseius) meridionalis: Chant 1959: 85 .

Amblyseius (Amblyseius) meridionalis: Muma 1961: 287 .

Typhlodromus meridionalis: Hirschmann 1962: 23 .

Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) meridionalis: Westerboer & Bernhard 1963: 690 .

Amblyseius (Pauciseius) meridionalis : Denmark & Muma 1989: 131.

Amblyseius calicis Karg, 1960: 444 (synonymized by Karg, 1971: 214).

Amblyseius spiramentatus Athias-Henriot, 1961: 429 (synonymized by Ueckermann & Loots, 1988: 79).

World distribution — Algeria, Azerbaijan, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,

Iceland, Iran, Italy, Latvia, Moldova, Morocco, Poland, Spain, Russia ( Livshitz and Kuznetsov

1972), Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, USA ( Demite et al. 2020).

Material examined — three females, Russia, Tyumen Province, vicinity of Malinovka, 55°06 ′ N, 65°04 E, 08 May 2019, A. Khaustov coll., in the soil.

Supplementary description — Female Tarsus I with 37 setae, excluding apical sensorial setal cluster. Setae d3 25 with rounded tip, d4 34. Apical sensorial setal cluster (26D) includes 10 short setae of different shape. Setae df-1 (13), df-3 (8) and df-7 (8) finger-shaped with blunt tips. Setae df-2 (7), df-5 (5), df-6 (16) and df-8 (10) baculiform with rounded tips, setae df-8 usually curved. Setae df-4 (11), df-9 (8) spur-like with lobe-like tips, setae df-10 (6) situated between df-4 and df-9 also spur-like with acuminate tip.

Remarks — This species was originally described from Potenza, Basilicata, Italy, in humus ( Berlese 1914). It is known from 21 countries in the Palearctic and Nearctic regions ( Moraes et al. 2004; Demite et al. 2020). It was previously recorded from leaves of Poterium polygamum (Rosaceae) in Crimea, Russia by Livshitz and Kuznetsov (1972). Siberian specimens well agree with redescription given by Faraji et al. (2011). This species is recorded for the first time in Asian Russia.